Speaker, Anita Among has demanded immediate intervention for residents of the Kigezi-Rwenzori region who were affected by floods. Reports indicated that 18 people died recently as mudslides swept away houses and roads in the districts of Rubanda, Kisoro and Rukiga in Kigezi region. “We want to ask the Minister of Disaster to come and present…
By James Wafula in Nairobi. The NGO council of Kenya has appealed to President William Ruto to shelve the proposed 16 percent VAT fuel levy saying it will worsen the already high cost of living and create a big burden to Kenyans battling to survive. In a press statement issued May 8, 2023 at his…
By Our Reporter. Female Workers Member of Parliament Hon Agnes Kunihira Abwooli, “ Omu Bwati” on December 19, 2022 launched a historic Workers Centre of Excellence at Kigowa, Nakawa West in Kampala, is taking shape. “It will serve as Workers House”, a resource centre for training, advocacy, entrepreneurship, projects planning Organising and recruitment, recreational centre…
By Sarah Kibisi. To many of us, April 01st 2020 is always considered as fool’s day trick but for URA’s Commissioner General, Mr John Musinguzi it was not fools. He received the instruments of power that ushered him into holding the reins for revenue administration at Uganda’s tax body – Uganda Revenue Authority (URA). While…
By Our Reporter. Fellow Workers, I take this opportunity to welcome you back from the annual International Nurses Day Celebrations that were hosted in Arua City. It was an honor to speak to you all, as we celebrated the invaluable contributions of nurses towards the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities. This year’s…
National Council of Sports (NCS) general secretary, Patrick Ogwel has been ordered to pay Shs 100 million to the Uganda Netball Federation (UNF) within seven days. Ogwel and UNF President Sarah Babirye Kityo have been at loggerheads for the past months after Kityo accused Ogwel of asking for bribes whenever disbursing funds to facilitate the…
By Silvano Kibuuka. For the longest time, sports federation leaders have succumbed into administrative wrangles from amongst themselves, especially over leadership. Everyone assumed that matters of sports would never warrant dragging culprits into prison cells and all the warring factions would settle the matters outside the courts of law and at most through arbitration committees…
By Our Correspondent in Lusaka. The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), an affiliate of the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) and its parent body the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has won the bid to host the Third African Media Convention in Accra, Ghana in May 2024. The successful bid of the GJA to host the…
By Hon. Agnes Kunihira Abwooli The labour market in Uganda is characterized by a fast –growing working – age population. The 2009 Uganda National Household Survey estimated Uganda’s working age population at 11.0 million, up from 9.3 million in 2005. The labour force participation rate of those aged between 14 and 64 years was high,…
By James Wafula in Malindi. Kenya President William Ruto has set up a commission of inquiry to probe the more than 100 people killed in the coastal Shakola mass graves but opposition leader Raila Odinga has criticized the government for blocking the media from the scene. Odinga’s motorcade was on May 5, 2023 also blocked…